The Best Jane Austen quotes

It is such a happiness when good people get together––and they always do. — Jane Austen

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself — Jane Austen

Money is the best recipe for happiness. — Jane Austen

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. — Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen

A lArge income is the best recipe for hAppiness i ever heArd of. — Jane Austen

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common. — Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. — Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. — Jane Austen

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. — Jane Austen

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. — Jane Austen

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook. — Jane Austen

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well. — Jane Austen

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! — Jane Austen

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. — Jane Austen

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once?––How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! — Jane Austen

How much I love every thing that is decided and open! — Jane Austen

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — Jane Austen

When I fall in love, it will be forever. — Jane Austen

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.–Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing. — Jane Austen

The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond The biographer’s. — Jane Austen

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen

Is not general incivility the very essence of love? — Jane Austen

We are all fools in love. — Jane Austen

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen

Is not poetry the food of love? — Jane Austen

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody. — Jane Austen

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. — Jane Austen

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh. — Jane Austen

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. — Jane Austen

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed. — Jane Austen

I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love. — Jane Austen

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love. — Jane Austen

Is love a fancy or a feeling…. or a Ferrars? — Emma Thompson

I am half agony, half hope. — Jane Austen

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope. — Jane Austen

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen

It taught me to hope,’ said he, ‘as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.’ Mr. Darcy–Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. — Jane Austen

All the privilege I claim for my own sex … is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered. — Jane Austen

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others. — Jane Austen

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. — Karen Joy Fowler

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. — Jane Austen

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. — Jane Austen

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. — Jane Austen

With a book he was regardless of time. — Jane Austen

Time, time will heal the wound. — Jane Austen

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. — Jane Austen

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation. — Jane Austen

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. — Jane Austen

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle. — Jane Austen

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. — Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time. — Jane Austen

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced. — Jane Austen

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. — Jane Austen

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. — Elinor Dashwood

If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid. — Amanda Grange

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy. — Jane Austen

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. — Jane Austen

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. — Jane Austen

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. — Jane Austen

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? — Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes. — Jane Austen

Beware how you give your heart. — Jane Austen

I may have lost my heart, but not my self–control. — Jane Austen

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. — Jane Austen

Everybody’s heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. — Jane Austen

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle. — Jane Austen

Then I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed. — Jane Austen

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire. — Jane Austen

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done. — Jane Austen

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse. — Syrie James

It is better to know as lIttle as possible of the defects of the person wIth whom you are to pass your life. — Jane Austen

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me. — Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant. — Syrie James

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. — Jane Austen

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. — Jane Austen

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . . — Laurie Viera Rigler

She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself. — Cassandra Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it. — Jane Austen

One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. — Jane Austen

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. — Jane Austen

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. — Jane Austen

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. — Jane Austen

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?’ ‘The nicest–by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding. — Jane Austen

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen

It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. — Jane Austen

He was not an ill–disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill–disposed…. — Jane Austen

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. — Jane Austen

It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. — Jane Austen

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue. — Jane Austen

He is also handsome,’ replied Elizabeth, ‘which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected. — Jane Austen

My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die. — Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. — Jane Austen

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. — Jane Austen

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. — Jane Austen

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement. — Jane Austen

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. — Jane Austen

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. — Jane Austen